dreck
or drek
[drek]
- excrement; dung.
- worthless trash; junk.
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Origin of dreck
1920–25; < Yiddish drek; cognate with German Dreck filth; compare Old English threax, Old Norse threkkr excrement
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Contemporary Examples
That makes you wonder how anyone got hired to write this dreck.
The website, edited by well-known islamophobe David Horowitz, is home to all sort of virulent anti-Muslim, anti-Palestinian dreck.
In a television season that has given us dreck like Zero Hour, Mob Doctor, and Do No Harm, Southland should be a hit.
But we could toughen up—have a little higher standard of wit for ourselves and a greater willingness to discourage the dreck.
dreck
- slang, mainly US rubbish; trash
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Word Origin
from Yiddish drek filth, dregs
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Word Origin and History for dreck
n.
"filth, trash," 1922, from Yiddish drek (German dreck), from Middle High German drec, from Proto-Germanic *threkka (cf. Old English þreax "rubbish," Old Frisian threkk), perhaps connected to Greek skatos "dung," Latin stercus "excrement," from PIE root *(s)ker- "to cut" (see shear (v.)).
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